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Nick Strayer
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.
Currently searching for a data science position that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.
Education
M.S. Progam Evaluation and Data Analytics
ASU Online
Arizona State University
2024 - N/A
- Currently learning statistic and coding courses to best support professional growth.
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B.S. Exercise Science (minor Professional Outreach and Development)
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University
2019 - 2015
- Specialized academic courses toward a career in healthcare marketing and administration.
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Research Experience
Marketing Internship
New Brunswick, NJ
AMP Physical Therapy
2015 - 2014
- Independently managed social media platforms for increased visibility for grassroots company.
- Collaborated with physical therapy professionals to develop marketing techniques for target clientele demographic.
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Industry Experience
I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from journalist to software engineer to data scientist. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Quality Control Analyst
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2025 - 2020
- Responsible for call center phone data and reporting out weekly and monthly.
- Determined agent coverage needs and maintain schedules, contributing to forecast optimization and leadership requests.
- Collaborated on interdepartmental and company projects to support departmental goals.
Lead Quality Control Analyst
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2025 - N/A
- Development of departmental data metrics to best support organizational goals.
- Management of metric standards and support of agent professional goals.
- Served as liaison between agents and leadership members.
Scarlet Ambassador
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University
2019 - 2015
- Provided university-wide informative tours to prospective students and parents.
- Managed scheduling, organization, and executiuon of tour schedules.
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Summer Camp Counselor
Westville, NJ
Without Walls Early Learning Center
2018 - 2015
- Primarily supported administrative and staffing coverage needs for summer program.
- Supervised and managed school-aged children when traveling to extracurricular trips.
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Teaching Experience
I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.
Statistical Computing in R
Nashville, TN
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
2017
- TA and lectured
- Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
- Graduate level class
Selected Data Science Writing
I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.
Healthcare Leadership Program
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2024 - 2023
- Series of courses designed to best prepare employees in leadership roles at Virtua Health.
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Epic Reporting
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2023 - 2022
- Completed both 101 & 102 courses
- Designed and optimized reports for departmental data needs.
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Healthcare Development Program
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2023 - 2022
- Series of courses designed to best prepare employees to work in a corporate healthcare environment.
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Parlance IVR
Pennsauken, NJ
Virtua Health
2023 - N/A
- Collaborated for the implementation of voice recognition system for the large healthcare organization.
- Management and maintenance of directory for organizational troubleshooting.
- Provide offload analysis for system performance on a monthly basis.
Selected Press (About)
Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app
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Science
2017
- Story of the app Papr made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.
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Selected Press (By)
A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block
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The New York Times
2016
- Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
- Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.
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Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Patient specific comorbidities impact overall survival in myelofibrosis
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Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
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- Bayesian network analysis used to find robust novel subgroups of patients with given genetic mutations.
- Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.
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